‘Wait, Woah, Woah, Woah!’ Stephen Miller and Jake Tapper Spar on CNN Over Trump’s Spending Freeze

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-29 02:34:15 | Updated at 2025-01-30 07:18:05 1 day ago

‘Wait, Woah, Woah, Woah!’ Stephen Miller and Jake Tapper Spar on CNN Over Trump’s Spending Freeze
Mediaite ^ | Jan 28th, 2025 | Charlie Nash

Posted on 01/28/2025 6:27:43 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

CNN host Jake Tapper clashed with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s government spending freeze.

Defending Trump’s order to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending – which was blocked by U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan on Tuesday – Miller declared, “President Trump, when he said ‘drain the swamp,’ he meant it.

And yes, so those kinds of spending programs are going to be put under review.”

Tapper responded:

"Okay. I don’t think anybody’s taking issue with if you find money that is being disbursed in an inappropriate way, halting it. I think what the confusion is is this seemed to a lot of groups and a lot of states – Republicans, Democrats, independents – like a very sweeping order and there is confusion. I just want to make sure I understand. So anybody out there that provides school lunches, anybody out there–"

“There’s zero impact on public benefit programs, full stop, as OMB has made clear,” Miller interrupted. “But I want to really drill down on this, Jake, because it’s so important. There’s two million employees in the federal government. Overwhelmingly, the career federal service in this country is far-left, left-wing.”

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To: MinorityRepublican

Jake Tapper and the rest of the clown show media are knowingly lying. The press briefing at the White House today specifically address these lies.

2 posted on 01/28/2025 6:30:26 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)

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3 posted on 01/28/2025 6:30:53 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

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